School: Riverstown (B.) (roll number 13747)
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: C. Mac Carrthaigh
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(M) None, because they are all outside.11. What does a ton of coal come to?
Ashes12. I see it, you can't see it, and yet it is nearer to you than to me?
Your poll.13. What part of a clock is never new?
The second-hand part.14. What is it you cannot see and yet is always before you?
Your future.15. What trees do ladies like in winter?
Furs.16. What is it that has a head and a tail and yet no body?
A penny.17. What colour is grass with snow on it?
Green.18. I go up a mountain I come down a mountain and I take a mountain on my back?
A ladder.19. What goes all round the wood and never goes into the wood?
The bark of a tree.
